New Issue!! Cholla Needles Issue 112

 

Cover Art by Sarah Kaufman

Poetry by:

Patty Prewitt
Tobi Alfier
Juan Delgado
Arvilla Fee
Cynthia Anderson
Penelope Moffet
James Marvelle
Marlene M. Tartaglione
Royal Rhodes
Gary Metras
Mark Evans

and
Sarah Marie

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California Welcome Center
56711 29 Palms Hwy 

Yucca Valley, CA 92284

New Book! The Trick Of Singularity by Kurt A. Schauppner

 

Singularity is a context in which a small change can cause a large effect. A tree falling over can cause 4 trees to grow from one trunk. Another example is one man can dream and become a poet, a playwright, a novelist, a movie director, a beat reporter AND a newspaper editor all in one body.

Kurt A. Schauppner has written the novels Shards of Broken Glass, The First Book of Exile, and Ghosts of Ide County. He also has a book of short stories Songs Without Words, and has written the plays April, Feral Dogs, Unbroken Chain, The Memory Jar, and Mary’s Confession. He is also writer/director of the independent motion picture, Once Upon A Dirt Road. In his spare time, he edits The Desert Trail, the weekly newspaper for Twenty-Nine Palms, California.

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New Book! Goodbye Kisses by Tobi Alfier

 

Tobi Alfier writes poetry, flash-fiction, and the odd blog. Her poems have appeared in The Chaffin Journal, Chiron Review, Cholla Needles, Coe Review, Gargoyle, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Nerve Cowboy, Permafrost, The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Suisun Valley Review, Town Creek Poetry, and other print and online journals.

Lavender, Rosemary, and Violet

The lucid whisper of the low morning tide,
she stares and inhales deeply the salty air
that rids her mind of every bad beginning.

He’d told her nothing was as alone
as the human heart and she had to agree.

She finds his words faithworthy,
what love summoned up and broke,
how could he have known the night
would end with solitude he thought

was his alone. A sage he was,
that man. In her mind’s eye she reinvents
him as a fugitive of love. A smuggler
who sends flower-christened drinks

to poorly-looking women
in flower-christened dresses,
lavender, rosemary—charming names
for sad women like she knew she was.

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New Issue! Cholla Needles 111

 

Cover and inside photos by Kim Martin

New literature from
James Marvelle
Bonnie Bostrom
Rick Adang
Sarah Marie
Duane Anderson
Arvilla Fee
Patty Prewitt
Francene Kaplan
Barry Kritzberg
and J. Malcolm Garcia

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1st composition of 2026 - Listen Free!

 Just click here for the experience! https://chollaneedles.bandcamp.com/track/ryan-mountain-climb

Ryan Mountain Climb. Uploaded to Bandcamp 2/24/26

New Issue! Cholla Needles 110

 

Cover and inner art by:
Sarah Kaufman

New literature from:
Bonnie Bostrom
Joseph Hutchison
Dorianne Laux
Gary Metras
Arvilla Fee
David Chorlton
Erica Goss
James Marvelle
Sarah Marie
David Larsen
Tobi Alfier
J. Malcolm Garcia

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New Issue! Cholla Needles 109

We start our tenth year with a whole chockfull of cholla needles.

Thank you Michael C. Roberts for the photo!

Thank you to the chockfull of great writers!

Jason Jones

Arvilla Fee 

Marlene M. Tartaglione     

Bonnie Bostrom

Duane Anderson

Joseph Hutchison

Christien Gholson

Zita Murányi

Royal Rhodes

Justin Hollis

J. Malcolm Garcia

David Larsen

Jonathan Ferrini

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